Not so funny story from a man who chose a fair skin Eurasian wife after divorcing his “dark” skin Khmer wives

Not so funny story from a man who chose a fair skin Eurasian wife after divorcing his “dark” skin Khmer wives

A couple of Khmer men with their "white" skin wives

Contrast between a "dark" skin former KR commander and his "white" skin wife who is now part of Cambodia's "nouveau" majority

A Khmer man ahead of his time: he chose a "white" skin wife before it was in fashion

"Rira bien qui rira le dernier" - Those who laugh last laugh best

Translated from French by Luc Sâr

Funny story

By N. Sihanouk

Tuesday 07 October 2008. TV5 World [channel], Asia. 07:45AM (Beijing time).

A TV program about India. Several pretty Indian women are rushing to (women) beauty shops to change their brown skin to white with a (new) cream that can turn their brown or dark skins to white.

An Indian woman, whom I found her pretty and attractive with her brown skin, said: “I must have my skin color changed because men only love women with fair skin.” –sic!-

In Cambodia, people knew, “before [it is even known in] India,” about this miraculous cream which, when applied on brown or “black” skin, turns this skin into … white.

That’s why [the] Phnom Penh [channels] TVK, CTN – TV stations which I watch every day during my stay in Beijing – show us a large majority of “white” Khmer women and only a negligible minority of brown-skinned Khmer women!

With food, one can love and appreciate both French dishes and desserts and Khmer dishes and desserts.

For a woman, it is the beauty of her face and body shape that matter. Not the color of her skin.